Actuator
    1.
    发明授权
    Actuator 有权

    公开(公告)号:US11735991B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US17284932

    申请日:2019-10-08

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    IPC分类号: H02P25/06 H02K41/03

    CPC分类号: H02K41/031 H02P25/06

    摘要: In an actuator, an unnecessarily large load is prevented from being applied to a shaft and a workpiece. There are included a force sensor, an output of which is according to a force applied to a connecting member connected to the shaft, an amplifier that amplifies the output of the force sensor, and a low-pass filter, and a load applied to the shaft is detected based on an output from the amplifier until the shaft or a member associated with the shaft comes in contact with another member, and thereafter, the load applied to the shaft is detected based on an output from the low-pass filter.

    Actuator system
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11911891B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17284886

    申请日:2019-10-17

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An actuator system that picks up workpieces aims to shorten tact time and to reduce damages to workpieces. The actuator system includes an actuator that picks up a workpiece, an external force detection sensor that detects a physical quantity that is correlated with an external force that is applied to the workpiece, a head unit that is connected to the actuator and the external force detection sensor without a communication network, the head unit being configured to control the actuator based on a sensing result from the external force detection sensor when a pickup request signal that is a signal requesting pickup of the workpiece is received, and a control device that is connected to the head unit over the communication network, the control device being configured to transmit the pickup request signal to the head unit.

    ACTUATOR SYSTEM
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210387353A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US17284886

    申请日:2019-10-17

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An actuator system that picks up workpieces aims to shorten tact time and to reduce damages to workpieces. The actuator system includes an actuator that picks up a workpiece, an external force detection sensor that detects a physical quantity that is correlated with an external force that is applied to the workpiece, a head unit that is connected to the actuator and the external force detection sensor without a communication network, the head unit being configured to control the actuator based on a sensing result from the external force detection sensor when a pickup request signal that is a signal requesting pickup of the workpiece is received, and a control device that is connected to the head unit over the communication network, the control device being configured to transmit the pickup request signal to the head unit.

    ACTUATOR SENSING DEVICE AND ACTUATOR CONTROL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210299889A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17263729

    申请日:2019-08-01

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    IPC分类号: B25J15/06 B25J13/08

    摘要: Provided is a sensing device to be applied to an actuator including a shaft that is movable in an axial direction, the shaft including a hollow part formed on at least a tip side of the shaft such that an interior of the shaft is hollow, the actuator being configured to generate a negative pressure in the hollow part to suction a workpiece to a tip of the shaft, thereby picking up the workpiece. The sensing device includes a flow sensor provided in a middle of an air passage to detect a flow rate of air flowing through the air passage, the air passage being a passage through which air sucked out from the hollow part flows when the negative pressure is applied to the hollow part, and a pressure sensor provided in a middle of the air passage, to detect a pressure in the air passage.

    ACTUATOR
    6.
    发明申请
    ACTUATOR 有权

    公开(公告)号:US20210379760A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US17284932

    申请日:2019-10-08

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    摘要: In an actuator, an unnecessarily large load is prevented from being applied to a shaft and a workpiece. There are included a force sensor, an output of which is according to a force applied to a connecting member connected to the shaft, an amplifier that amplifies the output of the force sensor, and a low-pass filter, and a load applied to the shaft is detected based on an output from the amplifier until the shaft or a member associated with the shaft comes in contact with another member, and thereafter, the load applied to the shaft is detected based on an output from the low-pass filter.

    ACTUATOR
    7.
    发明申请
    ACTUATOR 有权

    公开(公告)号:US20210370526A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US17263704

    申请日:2019-08-01

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    IPC分类号: B25J15/06

    摘要: The present invention reduces tact time for a pick-and-place operation by an actuator. In a housing of the actuator, an air passage being a passage of air when sucking air from a hollow part of a shaft is provided. Furthermore, a sucking valve that sucks air from the hollow part of the shaft through the air passage and a suction detecting sensor to detect that a workpiece is suctioned onto a tip of the shaft are provided in the air passage. Then, in the housing, the air passage is disposed at a position on a side opposite to a linear motion motor that moves the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft, via the shaft.

    NEGATIVE PRESSURE-GENERATING STRUCTURE AND ACTUATOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210221624A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US17264486

    申请日:2019-08-01

    申请人: THK CO., LTD.

    IPC分类号: B65G47/91 B25J15/06

    摘要: The present invention more suitably adjusts a pressure at a tip of a shaft in an actuator configured to generate a negative pressure at the tip of the shaft, to pick up a workpiece with the shaft. A negative pressure-generating structure to be applied to the actuator includes an insertion hole into which the shaft is inserted in a state where a space is formed between the shaft and a wall surface of the insertion hole, an inner space formed inside the negative pressure-generating structure, which communicates with a hollow part of the shaft through a communication hole formed in the shaft, and an air passage connected to the inner space, the air passage being a passage of air when air in the inner space is sucked to generate the negative pressure at the tip of the shaft.